Founded in 20008, ArchDaily is one of the biggest and most popular Architecture websites in the world. It is a great source for news and information from around the world on all aspects of Architecture.

This resource lets any of our students or staff record any broadcast programmes from 60+ TV and radio channels. These are then kept indefinitely and added to a growing media archive with all content shared by users across subscribing institutions. Staff can link to these in their Moodle units.

Sound recordings including art, design & architecture interviews, classical, world & jazz recordings, public debates and radio recordings. Members of the University are allowed, for educational purposes, to search, save or print sections and to incorporate sections in print or electronic course packs/VLEs on a secure environment (with appropriate acknowledgement of the source, listing title & copyright owner). For public display or performance of any part of the archive (e.g. conference or seminar), a public performance licence for the specific work/works used would be required. Access is limited by licence to users in the UK.

This sketchbook, now held in the Glasgow School of Art archive, was taken by Charles Rennie Mackintosh on his tour of Italy, France and Belgium in 1891. The online version retraces Mackintosh's route via interactive 19th century Baedeker maps, and shows his sketches alongside present day photographs of the same locations (photographs provided by David Buri and George Rawson).

Produced by the British Museum, this is a searchable database of around 2 million objects selected from the huge range of the Museum's collections. The database includes images, descriptive and historical information and references to further information for each object included.

Free online educational resources - videos, games, projects, etc - for civil and structural engineering, including materials and design, created by academics and professionals. Includes videos on materials by Tim Ibell

JISC: Internet for Audio, Video & Image searching

NTRS provides access to the NIX Collection of citations, images, photos, movies and videos downloaded from the NASA Image eXchange (the images are generally available for educational and information purposes but please check the copyright statement with each individual image). The site also includes citations and documents created or sponsored by NASA, and its predecesoor, NACA, from 1915 to date.

The NBS (National Building Specification) website includes a broad range of programmes on civil engineering subjects, including case studies, technical guidance and interviews with leading industry figures.

Oxford Art Online gives full text, searchable access to four online reference works: Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics and the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. Links to other web resources also included.

This resource gives access to a collection of online illustrated talks by architects and related designers. Note: the resource requires Macromedia Flash to be installed on your PC. There is an option to download this plug-in on the Pidgeon Digital site.

A multimedia resource for teaching, research and professional activity in urban design and includes the physical design, management, planning and use of buildings and landscape in terms of their relationship to public and open space. The service gathers and re-publishes multimedia material contributed by professional bodies, practitioners, academics and students. It also researches and creates new resources.

Includes over 100,000 images from national collections in art, design, sculpture and architecture. Images are freely available and copyright cleared for use in teaching, learning and research in the UK. Permission must be obtained for any other use. See the terms and conditions for full usage rights.